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Chitra-kavya (picture-poetry) is an ancient Indian tradition of writing poetry in visual patterns by play of meaning (shabdalankāra) (based in brilliant flexible play of vowels, consonants, words and sound). It is the device of constructing verses that can be written out in the form of a lotus or of a chariot.
Bāṇabhaṭṭa (Sanskrit: बाणभट्ट) was a 7th-century Sanskrit prose writer and poet from India. He was the Asthana Kavi in the court of the Emperor Harsha, during his reign at Kanyakubja. Bāna's principal works include a biography of Harsha, the Harshacharita (The Life of Harsha), [1] and one of the world's earliest novels ...
The word Mahakavi or Maha Kavi is an Indian honorific which means "Great Poet" in Sanskrit. This may refer to: ... Kālidāsa, 5th-century Sanskrit playwright and ...
Because the following words all begin with voiced consonants, in Sanskrit sandhi the ending -aḥ is in all these cases changed to -o, thus making the form indistinguishable from the Prakrit. Where the Sanskrit termination is undisguisably altered in Prakrit as for example with the instrumental plural -bhiḥ which becomes -hi , these ...
Nannayya Bhattaraka or Nannayya Bhattu (sometimes spelled Nannaya; c. 11th century) was a Telugu poet and the author of Andhra Mahabharatam, a Telugu retelling of the Sanskrit-language Mahabharata. Nannaya is generally considered the first poet (Adi Kavi) of Telugu language. [2] [3] [4] [1] He was patronized by Rajaraja Narendra of ...
Yigal Bronner, a scholar of Sanskrit poetry, [3] concludes that 'These details all suggest that Daṇḍin’s active career took place around 680–720 CE under the auspices of Narasiṃhavarman II. Daṇḍin was widely praised as a poet by Sanskrit commentators such as Rajashekhara ( fl. 920 CE ), and his works are widely studied.
This is a list of English words of Sanskrit origin. Most of these words were not directly borrowed from Sanskrit. The meaning of some words have changed slightly after being borrowed. Both languages belong to the Indo-European language family and have numerous cognate terms; some examples are "mortal", "mother", "father" and the names of the ...
Bhāsa is one of the earliest Indian playwrights in Sanskrit, predating Kālidasa.Estimates of his floruit range from the 4th century BCE [1] to the 4th century CE; [2] the thirteen plays attributed to him are commonly dated closer to the first or second century CE.